Supreme Court of India

Prashant Bharti v. State of Nct of Delhi

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Reported as [2013] 1 S.C.R. 504
Bench D.K. Jain and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.
Decided 23 January 2013

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5 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973: s. 482 read with s.401 - Quashing of criminal proceedings - Allegations leveled by prosecutrix against accused for commission offences punishable ulss 328, 354 and 376 on false promise of marriage - Charge-sheet filed - Charges framed - Held: In the charge sheet, Investigating Officer acknowledged that he could not find any proof to substantiate the charges - Charge-sheet was filed only on the basis of statement of prosecutrix u/s 164 - Further, in view of scientific investigation as revealed by mobile phones of prosecufrix and accused, commission of offence

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 referred to · 2 mentioned

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